462 CLXII. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f) [Dæmonorops. 
72. C. Lobbianus, Bece. mss.; leaflets equidistant linear-lanceolate 
candate-acuminate membranous, clothed beneath with an appressed M 
substance (as if coated with lime), cost 3 all naked or with a very oi 
bristles beneath, spadix slender and rachis and upper spathes aculeate, neri 
spikes crowded very short and broad with densely crowded distichous larg 
flowers. 
SINGAPORE, Lobb, G. Panti (210 Herb. Calcutta). 12-14 b 
A small palm, stem 18 in., 6-8 in. diam. Leaves 5-6 fl.; leaflets edel 
1-14 in., rachis of the portion seen unarmed.  Spathes (upper?) with a short the 
sheath and acuminate limb, armed with straight slender spines }~} in. long de sel 
sides and keel ; branch of male spadix 3 in. long, oblong ; spathellules most den i 
imbricate, } in. diam. Male fi. nearly } in. ; calyx cupular, with broad ey 
lobes, not pedicelliform ; petals twice as long, the lobes narrowly lanceolate.— bol 
seen only the branch of a male spadix and a fragment of a leaf with 7 leaflets, 
from G. Panti: J..D.H. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. ‘ 
C. exrENsUS, Roch, Fl. Ind. iii. 777. Probably C. palustris. 
C. HUMILIS, Boch, l. c. 773, is possibly 51, latifolius. . 
C. Merztanus, Schlecht. in Linnea, xxvi. 727 from Canara (? = C. rivalis, Te, 
C. rrxrCILLATUS, Sech, Fl. Ind. ii. 781. If for 30-40 pair of segments ` 
Roxburgh’s description, 3—4 be substituted, this might apply to C. javensis, ^* 
C. PoraAMUs, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 780; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 210; Gri. ^ 
Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 48; Palms Brit. Ind. 58, is not recogniable. 
24. DIEMONOROPS, Blume. 
Characters of Calamus, but outer sheaths or spathes cymbiform, Ge? 
ous, at first enclosing the inner; flowers often more pedicellate.— pec 
about 80. Distrib. as of Calamus. 
Dæmonorops differs so little from Calamus, and by sectional rather than gene ar 
characters according to Griffith, Kurz and others, that it was united with the oritf 
in the ** Genera Plantarum." As, however, Beccari, the latest and best 1 s than 
on Indian Palms, keeps them apart, and as the elaboration of the spectes no ik his 
their nomenclature in this work owes so much to him, I think it right to fol ee ci- 
lead. The difficulty of separating them in practice, working upon herbarium Pf 
mens, is show n by the synonymy of various species of both. 
ter 
Sect. I. Cymbospathse. Spathes cymbiform, beaked, two ing. 
completely enveloping theinner. Male spadix fusiform before flower 
* Stem scandent. 
Le 
_ l. D. Jenkinsianus, Mari. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 327 ; leaflets er 
distant linear finely acuminate, costo 3 all sparsely setose above wit! an 
long bristles, the central only beneath, margins setulose, petiole rachis 
flagellum with many marginal and dorsal hooked spines or 3-9- ines, 
sheath armed with very long flat deflexed and shorter more slender P flat 
spadix elongate decompound, outer spathe flattish 2-keeled armed t fruit 
spines narrowed into a long spinescent beak, fruiting calyx nearly eg Mart. 
globose apiculate. Walp. Ann. iii. 475; v. 827. D. nutantiflorus, Cale. 
Lc. 326; Walp. ll. c.c. 474, 827. Calamus Jenkinsianus, Grif- ' 
